I have been working on cross-compiling Octave for Android and have succeeded (with a small number of features scaled back). But, Octave relies on makeinfo for displaying some of its documentation.
First issue: First I run: ./configure -host=arm-linux-androideabi &> config.txt That seems fine. Then if I run: make I get this: make[4]: Entering directory `/home/corbin/android/texinfo-4.13/tools/info' gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I/home/corbin/android/texinfo-4.13/info -I.. -I/home/corbin/android/texinfo-4.13 -I/home/corbin/android/texinfo-4.13/gnulib/lib -I../gnulib/lib -DLOCALEDIR=\"/usr/local/share/locale\" -DINFODIR=\"/usr/local/share/info\" -DINFODIR2=\"/usr/local/share/info\" -g -O2 -MT makedoc.o -MD -MP -MF .deps/makedoc.Tpo -c -o makedoc.o /home/corbin/android/texinfo-4.13/info/makedoc.c mv -f .deps/makedoc.Tpo .deps/makedoc.Po make[4]: *** No rule to make target `../gnulib/lib/libgnu.a', needed by `makedoc'. Stop. Does the make flow not build libgnu.a automatically? Second issue: I really only need makeinfo, so if I: cd makeinfo; make I get some errors right away specific to some issues they have solved in gnulib for Android The version of gnulib that is used by release 4.13 (looks like the latest) is old and doesn't have some changes that allow gnulib to be built for Android. So, I want to update gnulib. This is what I did: gnulib-tool --import --m4-base=gnulib/m4 --source-base=gnulib/lib --no-vc-files getopt and that seems to have touched many of the files under libgnu...great. Then if I do: cd makeinfo; make I get further, but I get: index.c:52: error: 'mbscasecmp' undeclared here (not in a function) I don't see where mbscasecmp.h is being included by any file. How is this not normally a problem? Third issue: Now that I have updated gnulib and have noticed that libgnu.a is not being built automatically, I do: cd gnulib/lib make That fails on: ./sys/time.h:23: error: stray '@' in program What normally fills in those @PRAGMA@ lines in the gnulib files? Forth issue: I had to update which config.guess and config.sub I used, but I have had to do that for just about everything I have built for Android. Any help would be great! Thanks, Corbin
